A class 2C FSD is 17k and will give you 10 LY range. Sell your shield generator and weapons and buy cargo racks to get the maximum range and cargo capacity.
I've got a 2 jump trade that makes me about 1.2k a run. I plan on doing that until I make enough for a fuel scoop depending on how much they are. Don't even have a warrent scanner yet.
What do the frame shift drives do? Farther jumps?
Telling a noobie to go bounty hunting in a sidewinder isn't the most helpful advice.
I plan on keeping my weapons.A class 2C FSD is 17k and will give you 10 LY range. Sell your shield generator and weapons and buy cargo racks to get the maximum range and cargo capacity.
Good to know, thanks!A basic fuel scoop is 300 credits.
I managed to destroy everyone in the training missions. I don't know how that translates to in-game skill though.Sure it is. The ships that spawn are in direct relation to your combat rank and your ship loadout.
90% of the ships that spawn will be not much of a challenge.
He'll see a bunch of sidewinders and eagles and a lot of them won't even have shields.
I plan to keep the lasers, but buy one missile rack. Trading/bounty hunting seems to be my field.
Trading is a huge waste of money in a sidewinder unless you're trading rares or something that has a 10,000+ profit margin.
Even if you're making one-jump trades for 2000 profit per ton, you're still making less money per hour than you'd be making killing wanteds, and farming bounties is a lot more fun.
You can't earn 100,000 in an hour doing trades in a sidewinder. Not even if you're making making runs with rares. You can't even doing that if you're flat out stealing platinum and selling it at a black market.
Rares were gimped.
There's no guarantee that any more than 1 rare will spawn at a station and they don't spawn again at that station if there are any of them in your cargo hold. It's entirely possible to watch 5 spawn and then still have to fly out 150 LY to sell them at another station to get 50k.
Where did I suggest that he should take up full time trade-grinding? I suggested he should do one or two rare goods run to buy a viper or cobra. You are the one telling him to go bounty hunting grinding in a starter sidewinder, which I think is an even worse idea. He'll probably spend 15 minutes trying to kill a single cobra, finally kill it, see a 500 cr bounty, and give up.If you want to discourage new players from continuing to play the game, encouraging them into boring trading is the way to do it.
I did my fare share of trading. I've made almost 40 million in trading alone, but I forget what rank that got me. All but about 5 million of that was after the rare goods nerf, too. I sold my Type 7 and went back to an ASP because trading is so boring that it makes me want to punch babies.
That is almost entirely incorrect. Each individual rare good as a maximum personal supply and they are refreshed every 10 minutes up to that supply limit. So you may have to wait 10 minutes to get a full load in a sidewinder. But going afk for 10 minutes to make 150k seems like a pretty good deal to me.
Where did I suggest that he should take up full time trade-grinding? I suggested he should do one or two rare goods run to buy a viper or cobra. You are the one telling him to go bounty hunting grinding in a starter sidewinder, which I think is an even worse idea. He'll probably spend 15 minutes trying to kill a single cobra, finally kill it, see a 500 cr bounty, and give up.
That's the way it was before the nerf, which came less than a week after release.
That's not how rares work anymore. They haven't, for a long time. Frontier changed it exactly because people were just waiting around in stations to fill up and then bus rares around.
Ran out of gas.
What, you took his advice that you don't need a fuel scoop?
Have you used the Auto Field-Maintenance Unit yet?
Wondering if you can use it in Combat to repair your ship. Somehow I figure its probably gimped one way or another.
He got my thrusters.